Leaders in the Republican controlled Wisconsin legislature have announced they will miss today's deadline to place a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage on the ballot for the April elections. The speculation is that the GOP may be delaying the matter until the November 2006 midterm elections, when both Gov. Jim Doyle and Sen. Herb Kohl will be up for re-election.

Earth to social conservatives. You're being used, and the Wisconsin GOP leadership believes you're stupid enough to fall for it.

Or maybe they want all the gays to move to Springfield.